A full-zip cardigan cut from a salt-and-pepper birdseye stitch, knit in the Abruzzo hills where a single family mill has been turning fine yarns into finished sweaters for three generations. From a step back the surface reads as a warm brown; up close the birdseye pattern shows the two-tone character running through the knit, black flecks against a milk chocolate ground. Wear it zipped over a shirt on the coldest morning, half-zipped through the afternoon, or open across a tee at the end of a long day. It carries the presence of a jacket and stretches like knitwear.
Built from 100% extrafine merino wool, spun fine enough to sit against the skin without a base layer but knit dense enough in this birdseye construction to hold shape through the shoulders. The two-way zip runs the full length and lets you open the hem when you sit down without losing the collar. Ribbed borders lock the cuffs, hem, and neckline back into place after a full day of wear. Finished in Italy in the same mill that has run the knit for three decades.
Colour 801 is a warm mid-brown melange with fine black flecks, richer and more textural than a flat solid. It sits comfortably against cream, oatmeal, or a light blue oxford underneath and slots naturally beneath a navy or camel topcoat when the weather turns. This is a cardigan that anchors an outfit without asking for the room, the kind of piece that quietly becomes the layer you reach for first.